Full-Time in-house Bookkeeper
£8.00 - £9 Per hour
East London

Are you available to start work straight away? You must have strong Excel and Sage skills.
This position is not for accounting, but for (Book keeping), can you work 5 days a week. With the view of being offered a permanent position. If so, please read on.

We are looking for a Bookkeeper for a full-time Bookkeeping role /Office administration to oversee day-to-day functions and manage the office of a small Caribbean food import and wholesale distribution business.

The starting hourly rate ranges between £8.00-9.00 dependent on experience. Probationary period is 6 months.

You will be require to manage budgets, order goods, liaise with driver/sales persons, suppliers and customers, cut expenditure where possible and see to the upkeep of company finance. You will be required to perform many ad hoc office tasks as to ensure the office runs (efficiently and keep tidy at all times).

The successful candidate must be diploma qualified at a minimum. It is ESSENTIAL that you have a minimum of 2 years bookkeeping experience to be considered for this position. Please do not apply if you do not have a minimum of 2 years bookkeeping experience. In addition, the potential candidate must be registered self-employed and have documents showing the right to work in the UK.
(References will be checked)

Essential
• Working with Sage accounting software
• Working with invoices and receipts and posting as appropriate on to Sage database.
• Managing inventory and provide analysis.
• Maintaining credit control and stock control.
• Keeping appointments with clients
• Coordinating with other departments
• Minimizing office expenditure
• Enforcing office protocols
• Negotiating with suppliers and customers.
• Taking calls
• Flexibility to perform any ad-hoc office tasks as to ensure the efficient running of the organisation.

Skills
• Exceptional listening, grammar, numeracy, comprehension, presentation, and communication.
• Gathering and sorting data
• Utilizing computer applications
• Preparing budgets, business documents, and reports.
• Being congenial
• Keeping records
• Being confidential
• Being professional and punctual
• Following and executing company policies and objectives.
• Being reasonable and dependable/ Good time keeping is a must.

Please forward your most recent CV to our office in East London by email.